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12-19-2005, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Xandax The only abitraily about the meassurement of time, is the unit with which we use to meassure it. | Well, yeah. That's what I said. Maybe I wasn't clear enough? Different people use differing tools to measure what they conceive as a method of establishing the passage of time: the sun's progress, the filling of a basin with water, the span of human life, the the sounding of prayer bells, atomic decay. Other than atomic decay, I would say the rest are to varying extents subjective: a linear progression based on the mind's perception of reality. But the last, atomic decay, is an objective universal method of measuring the progress of time--as long as we agree on what time actually is. So I think we are in complete agreement. (excluding the potential for future timetravel, and changing of physics of course  )
I don't "do" science fiction.
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Last edited by fable; 12-19-2005 at 08:56 AM.
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